Answer: I think Max does everything Freak tells him to do because he feels slightly intimated and wants to please Freak.
I’m thinking freedom, you don’t even really need to read both excerpts(I did)but you just need to scan for key words, in the first passage you see, “free men”. “ Freedom means...”, and “..freedom under the guidance of god”. In the second text you have honor yes but well as “...shall have a new birth of freedom..”. Therefore freedom is the most emphasized value.